- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Modernization in a traditional society: the case of Saudi Arabia, 1990
- Creator:
- Al Shahrani, Abdullah S.
- Date of Original:
- 1990-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Several states of the third world have experienced dramatic changes brought about by the process of modernization. This modernization began in the late 1950s. The level, rate and consequences of modernization vary from country to country. The author is undertaking the task of looking at the third world as a whole, to see the level of achievement and impact of modernization on the social and political environment. With this in mind, special emphasis is on Saudi Arabia as our case study. Of all the third world countries, Saudi Arabia's state of growth in modernization has grown much more rapidly than any other third world country, even though it is an unsecular government. Oil wealth made it possible for the state to speed up the process of social mobilization whereby major achievements were accomplished with respect to agriculture, education, foreign trade, health services, industry and petroleum. Finally, the study discusses to what extent the process of modernization was able to achieve its goals and overcome challenges of the old and the new waves in their competition for the loyalty of the Saudi citizen.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1990_al_shahrani_abdullah_s_
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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